Occasionally, when I have nothing else to do and I am checking different
talk shows, I listen to Doctor Laura.  I agree with most all of her advice
but about one out of ten times, I find something with which I disagree.
Just prior to hearing Doctor Laura's advice to a 21 year old woman who gave
birth to a child and was giving it away, I heard Focus on the Family and
Doctor James Dobson telling about how he was at the signing of the partial
birth ban which the President signed into law this week.  Switching from
hearing the President talk about signing this bill into law and tuning in
Doctor Laura was a strange event.  This 21 year old college student called
in and was crying.  She had just given birth 8 days ago and prior to the
birth, she and her family had talked it over and she was going to give her
baby to her aunt and uncle to raise and to adopt.  Now, after the birth, she
was having second thoughts and she desperately wanted to keep her baby.  To
my amazement, Doctor Laura told her she had to stick to her decision and
give the baby up.  I wanted to scream into the radio, why?  She wants to
keep it now.  She wants to raise him now.  Instead, Doctor Laura advised her
to continue going to school and to give up the baby.  Gretchen was 16 when
she gave birth to Everett.  She gave up school and everything else to be his
mother.  What would be wrong with a 21 year old young lady giving up school
to raise her, note the word her, baby.  She is the mother; not her aunt.
Doctor Laura supposedly stands for morality and all that is right but she
missed the boat on this one by a country mile.  That young lady now wants to
raise her child and she is old enough to do so even without help but she has
a family who wants to help.  She isn't 14 or 15 or 16 years old, she is a
freaking 21 year old woman; a grown adult.  She has the adult abilities to
be a good mom and she wants to do that.  Yet, Doctor Laura talked her out of
it.  Somehow, something feels wrong about all this.  I see that two judges
have already ruled against the President's signing of the new law saying he
can't do that but in his speech, he vowed to fight it in the courts to keep
it law and to protect the unborn.  Praise God for that.

Phil.